NHRC seeks report on vision loss cases in Amreli

Gandhinagar: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has asked a report form the Gujarat Government about the action taken by them in the Amreli Cataract surgery case where the number of patients reportedly lost the vision after the operation.

NHRC on December 24 asked that the the report shall be submitted in four  weeks, it is acting on basis of a complaint by human rights activist Kantilal Parmar.

Around 25 patients had undergone cataract surgery at the government-run Shantabaa hospital in the first week of December, of which more than a dozen complained of blurred vision or loss of vision a few days later. DeshGujarat